Chilostoma cingulatum

Chilostoma cingulatum is a species of medium-sized, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the true snails.

Subspecies
  • Chilostoma cingulatum adamii (Pini, 1876)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum alzonai K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
  • Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense (De Betta, 1852)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum anconae (Gentiluomo, 1868)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum appelii (Kobelt, 1876)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum asperulum (Ehrmann, 1910)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum baldense (Rossmässler, 1839)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum bizona (Rossmässler, 1842)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum boccavallense K. L. Pfeiffer, 1951
  • Chilostoma cingulatum carrarense (Strobel, 1852)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum cingulatum (S. Studer, 1820)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidescens (Del Prete, 1879)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidissimum (Paulucci, 1881)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum frigidosum (Pollonera, 1890)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum gobanzi (Frauenfeld, 1867)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum hermesianum (Pini, 1874)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum infernale (P. Hesse, 1931)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum insubricum (De Cristofori & Jan, 1832)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum medoacense (Adami, 1886)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum montanum (Paulucci, 1881)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis (Costa, 1836)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum nicolisianum (Adami, 1886)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum peregrini Falkner, 1998
  • Chilostoma cingulatum philippii (Kobelt, 1905)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum preslii (Rossmässler, 1836)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum sentinense (Piersanti, 1833)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum transiens (Adami, 1886)
  • Chilostoma cingulatum anauniense
  • Chilostoma cingulatum baldense
  • Chilostoma cingulatum colubrinum
  • Chilostoma cingulatum nicatis
  • Chilostoma cingulatum preslii

Chilostoma cingulatum
Chilostoma cingulatum baldense (Rossmässler, 1839)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
clade Stylommatophora
informal group Sigmurethra
Superfamily:
Helicoidea
Family:
Helicidae
Genus:
Chilostoma
Species:
C. cingulatum
Binomial name
Chilostoma cingulatum
(Studer, 1820)[1]
Synonyms
  • Chilostoma (Cingulifera) cingulatum (S. Studer, 1820)· accepted, alternate representation
  • Glischrus cingulata Studer, 1820 (original combination)
  • Helix (Glischrus) cingulata Studer, 1820

Habitat

The species is found only on limestone rocks.

Life cycle
The scanning electron microscope images show (above) the lateral view of the love dart, scale bar 500 μm (0.5 mm); and (below) a cross section of the dart, scale bar 50 μm.

The diameter of the egg of this species is 3.3 mm.[2]

These snails create and use love darts during mating.

References
  1. Studer S. 1820. Kurzes Verzeichniss der bis jetzt in unserm Vaterlande entdeckten Conchylien. Naturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 3 (11): 83-90, 91-94. Bern.
  2. Heller J.: Life History Strategies. in Barker G. M. (ed.): The biology of terrestrial molluscs. CABI Publishing, Oxon, UK, 2001, ISBN 0-85199-318-4. 1-146, cited page: 428.


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